I was away for the weekend, celebrating with Mike in Brooklyn. We got to stay in a sweet hotel so I can review it for work, and our proximity to ChipShop meant we enjoyed a very late breakfast in full English style. We ordered dessert, too, because why not, right? I'm here to tell you that Four Berry Stew with cream is a fantastic way to round out ( Read more... )

Two years ago at this time I was at work trying to get psyched for a date that night. "You're not even wearing your good pants," Erica said to me about my slightly-too-large-and-too-short tan corduroys. "You must not be that excited." She was right. I'd been on a bunch of bad dates and was generally lukewarm going into this date simply because I'd ( Read more... )

I made it through the week! This was my first week of full-time since August 2008, and boy am I feeling it. It'll take me a little while to get used to this, I think, but there are perks, too. I had a great long chat with one of my (new) editors today to see if we can make this crazy machine run a little more smoothly. I have high hopes. I even got ( Read more... )

Today was a vast improvement over yesterday. After a good cry, a great e-mail from my Papa, and a night of sleep, I was ready to Put My Shit In Order, and put it in order I did. By noon the car debacle was sorted out. I'm paying out the nose to keep it at the towing agency over the weekend, but then a charity is coming to pick it up on Monday and ( Read more... )

I woke up feeling run down and continued to have a rotten day, but what made it perk up was meeting Miss Christina on the street near Century 21 on my way home. She'd just come from an (unsuccessful) shopping excursion to procure boots for Sundance and I'd just come from the office where I'd spent too many hours and accidentally also some tears. ( Read more... )

I failed at writing Good Stuff before bed last night. Part of that was because Mike was on the computer and partly it's because I was exhausted. A lot of weird shit went down in the last 24 hours. I found out my car was missing from the place I parked it in Queens a year ago while I was supposedly selling it but really I was just pretending it didn ( Read more... )

I worked my first day of full-time at the Magazine today (oh, did I mention that my copy chief switched with me so he could work part-time and I could work full? He's still chief, but now I get benefits!). It went better than I expected, which was nice. There's always a learning curve when getting used to a new section and I psych myself out ( Read more... )

I miss blogging. I miss it. Sometimes I'm not sure how to break into it again, which is silly (duh, start writing). Sometimes I'm not sure where I should write (do I post a Facebook note? Tweet 140 characters about it? Post it here? Send an e-mail?). Since April will mark my tenth year with LiveJournal, I guess it seems right that I should come ( Read more... )

Disney World is great, but I just have one thing to say: OMFG DOLE WHIP!

So, uh, there's kind of a big thing I haven't talked much about yet, and you'll forgive me if I have neither the time nor the energy to talk about it now (I will eventually, I swear -- there are some hilarious stories that involve gallon jugs of urine and stuff). In a nutshell, my stepmom, Dede, has crap kidneys and in August I entered the process ( Read more... )